A new book by Iris Fishof asks that question by looking at the history of the local industry, up to the politicized current scene

Dr. Iris Fishof had 340 works at her disposal when she had to decide which of them to present on the cover of her new book “Jewellery in Israel: Multicultural Diversity 1948 to the Present,” published last month by Germany’s Arnoldsche Art Publishers. The choices one would have expected were traditional jewelry from the 1950s, the kind that may be easy to identify as...

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